P resenting a fantastic tableau of resplendent neon hues, Huang Yuxing’s fantastical landscape guides the viewer into a deeply meditative and radiant natural scene. One of the most renowned artists in China working today, Huang Yuxing’s innovative use of the Chinese realist technique of Gongbi are in full display in Mountain Bathed under Golden Sun (2018-19), in which the artist expertly deploys thin lines to meticulously outline the shapes and subtle movement of the landscape. Reminiscent of the contour lines found on topographic maps, the present work is a delicate and mesmerising exploration of nature. The brilliant colours which have come to define Huang’s artistic practise, where shades of glowing greens, bright pinks and iridescent purples play against subtle moments of blue, produce an effect that is at once dazzling and profoundly soothing. By juxtaposing and intermingling different shapes and colours, Huang creates a portal into a surreal new world. Recalling the landscapes of Chinese mountains, powerful rivers and cloud-mottled skies, such broad associations provide a sense of familiarity in an otherwise alien terrain.

Huang’s sensitive use of colour fills the composition of the present work with a sense of dynamism, its richly detailed layers and play of light, shadow and texture achieving a sense of three dimensionality through the artist’s abstracted expression. Undulations of water are rendered through lines of colour to suggest a subtle sense of movement, the surface of the water in stark contrast to the imposing rock face above. These ambiguously dimensioned layers of rocks and mountains lead the viewers gaze upwards to an expansive plane of mountain peaks and the intensely pigmented pink sky beyond. Creating a sense of perceptual depth which opens up to a second body of water, Huang’s compositional framework is evocative of the natural scenes found in traditional Chinese landscapes. Though not attempting to present these objects naturalistically, Huang’s precise layering of colour and line build an impression of these shapes as they appear in the natural world.

Born in 1975 in Beijing and graduating from the Department of Mural Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2000, Huang’s fascination with Chinese Zen and Eastern philosophy can be felt in Mountain Bathed under Golden Sun, in which the artist’s landscape blends a calm emptiness with electric colourways that feel utterly contemporary in our highly digital world. Blurring the boundary between abstract hallucination and reality, Huang’s psychedelic world is marked by exceptional depth. Whilst initially recalling an Expressionistic style, they are deeply rooted in a detailed construction of landscape and form. Reflecting the experience of nature and creation itself, Huang’s expansive landscapes enable the viewer to transverse beyond visual stimulation alone, into a space of spiritual contemplation.

黃 宇興是當今中國藝壇最廣為人知的藝術家之一，他的風景畫蘊含絢麗奪目的螢光色，奇幻迷人，讓觀者沉醉於一片流光溢彩的輝煌蜃景。《日照金山》（2018-2019年作）展現黃氏將工筆重彩的傳統技法融會創意，他用細線勾劃風景，以密集排列的線條表示山水流動的方向。在本作中，層層色彩之下透出勾勒山勢流水的輪廓線，展現細膩動人的壯麗風光。用色鮮豔明亮是黃氏畫作的一大特色，亮綠、豔粉、鮮紫映襯相對沉穩的深藍，豐富色彩雖然令人眼花繚亂，但畫面卻給予觀者直擊心靈的慰藉。黃氏僅將各種色彩和形狀排列嵌套，就創造了通往超現實世界的大門，畫中世界恍若奇幻異域，但黃氏的中式山水佈局和掩映煙雲，卻為畫作平添一種熟悉感。

黃氏對色彩運用非常敏感，他仔細將山水的光影和肌理分層處理，層層湧動的色彩讓本作充滿動感，即使山水造型抽象，畫面卻呈現出可居可遊的立體感。水面柔和的起伏波動以彩色細線表現，與上方的高聳山勢形成強烈對比。山石層層疊疊，引領觀者的視點從山腳上升至山峰和遠處的粉紅色天空。黃氏在前景的山巒後方佈置另一個湖泊，營造從山前窺山後的深遠感，令人聯想到傳統中國山水畫的佈局。黃氏不刻意展現寫實的自然風光，但仍準確地以顏色和線條堆置出真山實水的構圖。

黃氏於1975年出生於北京，2000年畢業於中央美術學院壁畫系。《日照金山》體現了黃氏對中國禪學和東方哲理的迷戀，平和悠遠的山水結合屬於數碼年代的鮮亮用色，令畫面洋溢現代感。黃氏筆下的迷幻風景展現無比的深遠感，讓人分不清虛實。他的作品驟眼看來有著表現主義的風格特徵，實際上卻深植於山水佈局的經營，是藝術家體悟自然後開發新意的心血結晶，為觀者帶來脫離塵俗、震撼視覺和心靈的體驗。